At a press conference Monday Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced that the city had filled its 800,000th pothole. In July of 2005 when Villaraigosa took office he pledged to fill one million potholes. The Mayor touted the great success of his transportation policy, stating the city of Los Angeles is, “not only a pothole filler, but a pothole leader in the nation.”
Yet, critics are quick to point out that the City does not know exactly how many potholes cover the sprawling Los Angeles city streets, and has no real way of measuring pothole-filling progress. Estimates reveal that it would cost around $2.5 billion to properly repair city roads as opposed to simply patching problems after they arise.
The press conference was held in a residential area of Leimert Park and showed the Mayor and the Bureau of City Street Workers ceremoniously filling the 800,00th pothole. The press conference was called after the timely release of a study that found that Los Angeles has the worst roads in California, with 65 percent of them needing repair.
For the city, this study seems to have been just another bump in the road.
Links:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-roadsage24mar24,1,1043181.column
http://cbs2.com/local/Leimert.Park.Pothole.2.678811.html
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=6023653
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